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...detriment of society, few would deny. Nor would many deny the basic worth of the 102-year-old U. S. patent concept-giving an inventor, who may have struggled for years, a 17-year monopoly on his idea. But there is evidence that invention is moving out of the garret and into the laboratories of Big Business. Packard's Macauley and General Motors' famed inventor, Charles F. Kettering, felt, however, that even in laboratories patents have value both as protection during the "shirt-losing" stage and as incentives. Said "Boss Ket": "The young fellows look on them just...
During a performance of La Boheme in London's Covent Garden, Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli unintentionally lighted a stage stove in the garret scene. Intrepid Gigli, singing like a lark the whole time, edged into the wings, seized a bucket of water, doused the fire...
...this shack, slim, brown-eyed, tangle-bobbed Artist Maclver once spent a winter. But every other winter since she was 16 she has lived in one or another dusty studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Last week, in her skylit garret on MacDougal Street, wearing leather sandals and paint-splattered slacks, she welcomed more interviewers from the press than she had ever seen in her life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures...
Suzanne Eisendieck was born in Danzig of Polish parents. Her father was a lumber dealer. For two years she studied in Berlin, then moved on to Paris with exactly 300 francs in her thin purse. She got a Montparnasse garret so small that she had to lean halfway out of the window to paint at all. Already she had developed a style. She wanted to paint the mythical world of 1900 (eight years before she was born), when ladies wore feather boas and bright feathers in their hats, when gentlemen had whiskers and drank champagne. Because she was much prettier...
...Bohemian garret-&-starvation conception of a great artist does not apply to Sibelius. Since 1897 he has enjoyed a modest pension from the Finnish state, which has provided him with leisure to compose. At his house at Jarvenpaa he lives the secluded life of a highly respectable country gentleman. His five daughters have long since gone forth to marry and raise families of their own. He and his wife live alone, looked after by two maids. He relishes good food and drink, smokes continually the best and largest Havana cigars, is partial between meals to well-aged whiskey served...